A Question of Guilt

Fyfield, Frances - RARE SIGNED FIRST PRINTING

ISBN 10: 043427206X / ISBN 13: 9780434272068

Published by Heinemann, 1988

About this Item

Superb writer, and this is the scarce first UK hardback in ideal collector condition. Signed on the title page. Protected jacket. 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Seller Inventory # 002848

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Question of Guilt
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 043427206X
• ISBN 13: 9780434272068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Jacket has some minor shelfwear/scuffing and scoring. Upper edges, spine head and leading corners slightly creased and bumped. Slightly sunned from middle to lower spine. Page block slightly tanned. Pages edges lightly tanned throughout, not affecting text. Pages are clean and crisp. BW

From Publishers Weekly

This first novel by a London solicitor is wonderfully British, devilishly intricate and, once the reader settles in, compelling indeed. Eileen Cartwright, a rich, middle-aged widow of less than lofty moral standards, arranges the murder of her solicitor's wife, under the mistaken impression that the act will win his affections. But the hired murderer, would-be private detective Stanislaus Jaskowski, is caught almost immediately--and confesses all. The trying task of proving the widow Cartwright's role in the crime falls to police superintendent Geoffrey Bailey and prosecutor Helen West--who are slowly and deliciously drawn together personally and professionally. While the case comes to involve Jaskowski's sons, Edward and Peter, the horrifying truth is revealed as the reader gradually learns the motives driving each of the marvelously drawn characters in this auspicious first volume in Pocket's new hardcover mystery series. Major ad/promo; BOMC alternate.
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